eprintid: 1702
rev_number: 9
eprint_status: archive
userid: 35
dir: disk0/00/00/17/02
datestamp: 2018-06-10 00:59:38
lastmod: 2018-06-10 00:59:38
status_changed: 2018-06-10 00:59:38
type: conference_item
metadata_visibility: show
creators_name: Komorowski, Walter
title: Alma Integration: Connecting Other Systems
ispublished: pub
subjects: Alma
subjects: gen
divisions: eluna_conf
abstract: One of the more powerful features of Alma is its ability to interact with other systems.  Williams has sucessfully integrated Alma with a wide variety of systems:


-Controller's Office (submiting vouchers each night)

-Student and Personnel Information System (reloading all faculty/staff/student records each night)

-Bursar's Office (outputing student fines and credits nightly) 

-Rapid (publishing our A/V, print and electronic journal, and monograph holdings to a OAI, which Rapid harvests) 

-OCLC (setting our holdings in OCLC each night; upload our original cataloging each month)

-Elsevier and Ovid ( updating our ejournal and ebook content in ScienceDirect and SP Ovid each week)

-ILLiad  (receiving and circulating ILL materials in Alma) 


Though most integrations proved successful, some did not accomplish everything we needed them to do; so we needed to improvise and adapt.  Many integrations yielded surprises both positive and negative.  In this presentation, I discuss the benefits integrations with other systems and services brought us, and also explore the hiccups we experienced along the way.  I will pass along some tips and tricks that we uncovered along the way. This presentatiion differs from most because in addition to discussing what we do, I will ask audience members to share what they do.  We all have experience, discoveries, "ah ha" moments that we can share and from which we can all learn.
date: 2018-05-03
full_text_status: restricted
pres_type: other
event_title: ELUNA 2018 Annual Meeting
event_location: Spokane, Washington
event_dates: May 1-4, 2018
event_type: conference
refereed: TRUE
citation: Komorowski, Walter (2018) Alma Integration: Connecting Other Systems. In: ELUNA 2018 Annual Meeting, May 1-4, 2018, Spokane, Washington.
document_url: https://beta-documents.el-una.org/id/eprint/1702/1/Alma%20Integration%20Connecting%20Other%20Systems.pptx